HK65

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Can you elaborate on these topics for someone not in the know?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Most people who speak about wanting to emigrate are not I assume, but most people who want to just "move countries" seem to be.

I've moved around across Europe, which should be "seamless and easy", as soon as I move in I can vote, no immigration process no nothing.

Let me tell you how the Benelux works nowadays. You have to get a job before you move. Which seems reasonable as long as you don't see that companies won't even hire locals of a different culture nowadays, much less people who'd have to move from another EU country. Outside the EU? At best no answer, some recruiters will call you names.

Then the rental market. There are going to be like 20 apartments for rent, mostly okay, for around 40% of what you get paid after taxes. You have to schedule a viewing, you have to attend personally. There are going to be around 40 people to one apartment, and you will almost never get chosen. Would you pay more than the locals? Tough luck, that's illegal, prices are capped. So you keep spending money to go to viewings you will most certainly not get a place at.

Even if you had some idea of what immigrating to the EU meant five years ago, it's outdated, it got way worse, and will get worse.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Inflation was not high because of government spending, but because of a price spiral caused by monopolistic markets. The spending that the article criticises would actually help as long as the money ended up with workers, boosting wages.

This author is at least as wrong as the Harris campaign was.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump didn't see any consequences in the old America either.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Lawyers gotta get paid I guess.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Immigration is hard for most people.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Watch as it does jack shit to inflation as the wage price spiral was always just a bogeyman to make sure a recession always only hits workers.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, lol no it isn't, the whole submarine plot has been forced into it because Clancy can't not write about submarines.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Hungary. Yes, that Hungary. It isn't like it used to be, this was during the late 90s early 2000s.

Insert only 90s kids know meme.

 

I mean, he's not wrong, but apparently saying the quiet part out loud became a faux pas in Hungary recently.

It's not as pithy as Orbán's "Rosatom will buy it for me" about RTL Hungary though.

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